skeptical - Story 133189 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the car was strained, each mile stretching into an eternity. He had listened to the phone calls for months, each conversation sending a wave of unease through him. The way she'd leave the room to take them, the way her voice would change when she was talking...

He pretended to be distracted by the road, but his mind raced. She kept saying they were work related, that she was very busy at the office. He knew, though, that something wasn't right.

He glanced at her, her face illuminated by the glow of the dashboard. Her phone rang, and she answered without looking at him. The road blurred, the world closing in on him.

Emotion: skeptical

Cluster: Suspicion / Vigilance

PC1 (Valence): -0.02 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.45

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion skeptical. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 skeptical stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the skeptical emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the skeptical vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.468
`que`	0.396
`la`	0.346
`a`	0.333
`🧐`	0.327

Suppressed:

`再び`	-0.304
`终于`	-0.299
`再次`	-0.270
`終於`	-0.263
`momentarily`	-0.255